On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:32:13 -0400, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Changing the interfaces of existing system calls to accept a NULL name > which previously wasn't acceptable is not valid. Even for new system > calls I think it's a bad idea. utimensat already has the most ugly > code of all fs related system calls because of that. > But from an interface point, it seems nice to say if the relative name from an fd is NULL, the operation should happen on fd itself. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
